The secret documents that detail how patients’ privacy is breached

When the federal government takes the rare step of fining medical providers for violating the privacy and security of patients’ medical information, it issues a press release and posts details on the web. But thousands of times a year, the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services resolves complaints about…

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